This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
Every time time stops
I start thinking I'm something I'm not
My gut starts sinking
I need my sin like change needs linking
Like God needs making out
Like a man needs making
Turn up everything everywhere
I hear nothing but white noise
Pouring in through my thin failed skin
I'm breathing in bad air
Book another life and take me somewhere
Deep down they tell me I'm OK
Better start taking
I don't wanna be all day
I choose every second I'm giving
Do I work for a death?
Do I work for a living?
I'll sing my praises
Not two ways
About making the call
What goes?
What stays?
There's no tomorrows left
Just todays
I'm channeling something
Channeling something
Lie low
Soak up your shadow
Saddle up silk horses
Drive them through the black smoke
Lens flare
I fall deep into the heart where
Slipping on whispers coming up nowhere
Wanna get let through fat on my share
This is where we head to self Hell elsewhere
Hot lies lines land
Right cuts left
And promises belly up
Wrinkle on the wet sand
My pride's in Lalalaland
Hitch my ride
I sit when you stand
Don't mind being left at light too
As long as I'm straight back
Stand up see through
Even in pitch black we'll know who's fool
Give me my voice back
Untied tongue time
Run through skies till
Cloud smoke fills my rattling eyes
I've never been left so dead or alive
I'm round and wild
I'm channeling something
Channeling something
Lie low
Soak up your shadow
Lie low
Soak up your shadow
Saddle up silk horses
Drive them through the black smoke
I start thinking I'm something I'm not
My gut starts sinking
I need my sin like change needs linking
Like God needs making out
Like a man needs making
Turn up everything everywhere
I hear nothing but white noise
Pouring in through my thin failed skin
I'm breathing in bad air
Book another life and take me somewhere
Deep down they tell me I'm OK
Better start taking
I don't wanna be all day
I choose every second I'm giving
Do I work for a death?
Do I work for a living?
I'll sing my praises
Not two ways
About making the call
What goes?
What stays?
There's no tomorrows left
Just todays
I'm channeling something
Channeling something
Lie low
Soak up your shadow
Saddle up silk horses
Drive them through the black smoke
Lens flare
I fall deep into the heart where
Slipping on whispers coming up nowhere
Wanna get let through fat on my share
This is where we head to self Hell elsewhere
Hot lies lines land
Right cuts left
And promises belly up
Wrinkle on the wet sand
My pride's in Lalalaland
Hitch my ride
I sit when you stand
Don't mind being left at light too
As long as I'm straight back
Stand up see through
Even in pitch black we'll know who's fool
Give me my voice back
Untied tongue time
Run through skies till
Cloud smoke fills my rattling eyes
I've never been left so dead or alive
I'm round and wild
I'm channeling something
Channeling something
Lie low
Soak up your shadow
Lie low
Soak up your shadow
Saddle up silk horses
Drive them through the black smoke
Lyrics submitted by evelienc
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